Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2465 points
46% significantly better overall score
1678 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3937 points
17% slightly better gaming score
3356 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2027 points
62% significantly better multitasking score
1245 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1949 points
63% significantly better heavy workload score
1193 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.39 points
113% significantly higher Blender score
26.38 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3434 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2566 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1099 points
1330 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
Identical
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
Identical
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

635th of 1,089
779th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-6700HQ vs Pentium Gold 7505 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Gold 7505 performs better than the Core i7-6700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700HQ in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-6700HQ has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold 7505. Indeed, the Core i7-6700HQ has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold 7505. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold 7505. The Pentium Gold 7505 outputs less heat than Core i7-6700HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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